How to Make a Blackbird Nesting Box / Bird House (Open Fronted)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2021
- In this video I show how to make an Open Fronted Blackbird Nesting Box / Bird Box out of scrap wood. This type of box may also attract other birds such as Wrens, Song Thrushes, Wagtails & Robins. (Box Dimensions: W-24cm / D-20cm / H-20cm)
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whats the dimensions on the front panel to give the opening please
Thanks for the idea. I like the roof. I prefer to have the base entirely within the side panels and 10mm up from the bottom of these panels to keep it drier.
Thanks 👍🏻 that sounds like a good idea.
That’s just brilliant. Love your videos
Thank you very much George
Nice box great vid thanks for making and posting 👍
Thanks!👍 Your welcome.
Good work!
Cheers! 😃
Really well explained with some good construction details, excellent!
Thanks! 👍🏻
fantastic phill keep makeing bird boxes good man ian
Thanks Norma 😃 🐦👍
Nice one Phill I did the exact same thing yesterday for some swifts. 😊
Thanks Karl 👍 the weather has been good for it this week 😃
Excellent … well narrated …😃
Thanks again Don 👍🏻
I will give this a try
Cool! 👍🏻
I'm late 'coming to the party', Phill, and it's too late this year for any birds to nest, but I WILL be building a box or two. (I've seen a few of your other videos that demonstrate different bird boxes you've built.) 👍😉♥
Thanks very much glad you like the videos 👍🏻
@@PhillWyattProjects I absolutely love 'em, Phill. I'm thinking that I should have, perhaps, expanded on my initial post by saying that we did have a blackbird nest in one of our shrubs, but none of her eggs hatched. 😥 I've got to 'do my bit' to try and help out Nature. 👍
Nice Blackbird house Phill! Looking forward to making some bird houses myself in the near future! We have a nestin pair of Blackbird that have a naturally constructed nest at the top of one of our walls out the back of the house, in amongst some Ivy, they've been nesting there for over 6 years! Lovely birds.
Have you thought about any modifications or additional things that could be done to help protect nests from cats and magpies etc? like something below it to catch fallen fledglings so they're not vunerable on the ground, and also to stop any cats from bring able to jump up etc? Have had to save some Sparrow fledglings in the past from being stuck on the ground. We have several cats in the area that come in and out the back garden area here, it would be good to be able to do more to prevent them from getting any birds if possible.
Would be cool to see a Wood Pigeon nesting box if there is such a thing, if they would use one that is! They're really interesting birds once you learn more about them.
Cheers.
Thanks for the lovely comment Ed 👍🏻 mine has been covered up by the hedges now so it's practically invisible. It's fairly high up also away from the cats. I need to check if there's anything in there because there is a blackbird that's always in the garden. I find bird boxes really hot and miss. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do the birds wont accept it as a home. If you put the blackbird box deep into the hedges then hopefully fledglings will have plenty of branches to cling to. I've not heard of a pigeon nesting box but now you mention it I will do some research.
The bird house came out really good, have any black birds taken possession yet 😉
Thanks Chris👍 not just yet but I'm hopeful.🤞
NOOICE!
Thanks!👍
Nice job, let us know if used
Thanks John 👍 I will do an update vid if used.
A while ago now Phil
Was the box ever used?
nice informative video.
just one thing, at 8 : 34 while up the ladder, you put the screw in your mouth to hold it til you were ready to screw the box to the tree.
i was a shopfitting joiner before Iretired & did this hundreds of times, however,while putting a picture up at home, i put the pin in my mouth while getting up on a chair.
I ended up swallowing the pin resulting in a trip to the hospital, having a tube down my throat with a grabber inside to remove the pin, all in all, not a very nice experience.
Ever since then, I tend to NOT put any form of fastener in my mouth.
Thanks for sharing the video,hope you dont mind me telling my story, to hopefully prevent anyone going through what I went through.
Good point now that I've heard your story I won't be doing it again just to be on the safe side 👍🏻 cheers
The box look nice but what if no bird come visit
You never know with birds. Sometimes they use the box, sometimes they don't.
What about draining holes in the base?
If you watch the video, I drill 5 drainage holes in the base.
@@PhillWyattProjects Apologies I didn't see that bit. Thanks
Nice box Phil, I wanted to know we have a bird nest outside our shed and I was wondering to put the babies in a box as they keep on flying down on the ground but needs someone to put them back up. So unsure how high I can keep the box to help the babies jump back into the box without any predators reaching them (cats)
This is something I am unsure of. I don't think these types of box need to be too high up anyway as long as they are well concealed inside a hedge.
Hi Phill do you have dimensions for this please, great vid 👍
Hi thanks Brian yes the dimensions are in the description of the video 👍
did you get birds in it?
I think I put it up a bit too late in the year but hopefully next spring fingers crossed.
How do you protect it from predators e.g. cats, magpies or martens?
Put it deep within the hedges. My hedges have grown around this one now it's almost invisible.
so how did it work out.
It's still up in my hedges completely hidden now. I need to check to see it there's anything nesting in it. There is a Blackbird that comes in the garden all the time so it might have nested there.
Do you get anything in it tho?
Really depends on where you live. I put mine up too late in the season. This spring I should get a bird in it 🤞
@@PhillWyattProjects well blackbirds nest closer to the ground than other birds don’t they? Usually in hedges or ivy
I built one and put it up, the blackbird went and build in a tree not 6 ft away, better luck next year.
This happened to me last year. Sometimes they just won't take to the box then next year they might they can be fussy.
@@PhillWyattProjects in the winter should i put it in the tree where the nest is now ??